Washington Breweries Win Big at Best of Craft Beer Awards

A collage of images from the Best of Craft Beer Awards.

Last weekend, professional brewers and judges from as far away as Chile descended upon Central Oregon to judge over 1,850 entries in the 2024 Best of Craft Beer Awards competition. Breweries of all sizes sent over 13,000 containers of their finest product for evaluation in 55 categories and subcategories. Judging took place during a 3-day, five-session period by over 100 of the most qualified international judges. They awarded 169 gold, silver, and bronze medals to 123 brewery locations worldwide.

The judging takes place in Redmond, Oregon. Naturally, breweries from Oregon, Washington, and California enjoy an advantage because transporting beer to the event is so much easier. Call it a home-field advantage. The more beers you enter, the better your chances of winning. Still, that does not diminish the accomplishment. The typical caveat applies: we know which beers won, but we do not know which beers did and did not enter the competition.

Oregon breweries raked in 41 medals this year.
Washington breweries brought home 27 medals.
California breweries also earned 27 medals.
Special congrats to Grains of Wrath Brewing for winning four medals.

Below I share the Washington and Oregon winners. You can see the complete list of all winners here.

Washington’s Gold Medal Winners:

Grains of Wrath Brewing – Dystopian IPA – IPA
Old Stove Brewing – No One Knows – Hazy or Juicy Pale Ale
Ladd & Lass Brewing – Swinging at Mirrors – Hazy or Juicy IPA
Icicle Brewing – Magic Meadow – Hazy or Juicy Imperial IPA
Reuben’s Brews -Three Ryes Men – Barley Wines, Wheat Wine, & Rye Wine
Terramar Brewing – Octopus Garden Gose – German Sour Beers
Stemma Brewing – Mirror Coffee Oatmeal Stout – Coffee Beer
Single Hill Brewing – Skybreak – Wood- & Barrel-Aged Specialty Stouts
Recluse Brew Works – RBW Export Lager – Pale European Lagers
White Bluffs Brewing – Goatbuck Helles Bock – Bocks

Washington’s Silver Medal Winners:

Larrabee Lager Co. – Coast City – Kölsch
White Bluffs Brewing – Shadows – Porters & Brown Ales
Grains of Wrath Brewing – Into the Void – Imperial Porters & Brown Ales
Fortside Brewing – Oude AF – Spontaneous Fermentation/Mixed-Culture/Brett Beers
Blewett Brewing – Standard American Lager – Light Lagers

Washington’s Bronze Medal Winners:

Grains of Wrath Brewing (Collab w/ Shred Beer Co.) – Totally Terminated – Hop-Forward Session Beers
Icicle Brewing – Dragontail – Pale Ale
Grains of Wrath Brewing – Panopticon IPA – IPA
Burke-Gilman Brewing Co.- Orange Julia – Hazy or Juicy Pale Ale
Project 9 Brewing – King Lupu’s Happy Juice – Hazy or Juicy IPA
Loowit Brewing – Corsair Kolsch – Kölsch
Formula Brewing – Wetland Wheat – American Wheat Beers
Lumberbeard Brewing – Flirting With Disaster – Spontaneous Fermentation/Mixed-Culture/Brett Beers
Trap Door Brewing – Untitled #8 – Fruited Mixed-Culture Beers

Oregon Gold Medal Winners:

Sunriver Brewing Co. – Bondi Beach Party – Pale Ale
Van Henion Brewing – Van Henion Kolsch – Kölsch
Deschutes Brewery Bend Public House – Otter Encounter – English Ales
Sunriver Brewing Co. – Cinder Beast – Red or Strong Red Beers
Conversion Brewing – Mission Stout – Stouts
10 Barrel Brewing – Revive – Imperial Stouts
Wild Ride Brewing – Whoopty Whoop Hefeweizen – American Wheat Beers
Deschutes Brewery Portland Public House – Dip N’ Dunkel – Specialty Grains & Fermentables
Evasion Brewing – Always in Saison – Gluten-Free Beers
Oregon City Brewing Co. – Another Brick in Wallonia – Classic Saisons & Farmhouse Beers
Old Town Brewing – Sahti – Rare & Historical Beers
10 Barrel Brewing – Ginzu – American Sour Beers
Oregon City Brewing Co. – Coming to Fruition: Cherry – Spontaneous Fermentation/Mixed-Culture/Brett Beers
Alesong Brewing and Blending – Raspberry Parliament – Fruited Mixed-Culture Beers
Breakside Brewery & Taproom (Collab w/ The Lost Abbey) – The Great Awakening – Wood- & Barrel-Aged Strong Beers
Migration Brewing Co. – Paloma – Experimental Beers
McMenamins Old Saint Francis School – Pitter Patter – Light Lagers
Falling Sky Brewing – Hanzo Lager – North American Lagers
Von Ebert Brewing – Pils – German Pilsner
10 Barrel- Portland – Validation Sequence – Czech Pilsner
Breakside Brewery & Taproom – Thriving Metropolis – Hop-Forward Lagers

Oregon Silver Medal Winners:

Fort George Brewery, Public House – Westmore IPA – IPA
Oregon City Brewing Co. – Dark ‘Vator Black Ale – Cascadian Dark Ale
McMenamins Old Saint Francis School – Parental Advisory (Cryo Content) – Experimental Hop-Forward Beers & Other IPAs
Wild Ride Brewing – Big Booty Golden Ale – Golden or Blonde Ale
10 Barrel Brewing – Baywindow – German Sour Beers
10 Barrel Brewing – Gindulgence – American Sour Beers
Bevel Craft Brewing – Midnight Buzzz – Coffee Beers
10 Barrel Brewing – Cerveza de los Muertos – Flavored Beers
Breakside Brewery & Taproom – Let Your Indulgence Set Me Free – Wood- & Barrel-Aged Stouts
10 Barrel Brewing – Agrio Morado – Experimental Beers
Grand Fir Brewing – Trail Bloom – Czech Pilsner
Immersion Brewing (collab w/ Boneyard) – Shredsquatch – Collaboration

Oregon Bronze Medal Winners:

StormBreaker Brewing – Buffalo Smile – Hazy or Juicy Imperial IPA
Zoiglhaus Brewing Co. – Zoigl-Weiss – German Wheat Beers
Von Ebert Brewing – Perfect All American Wit – Belgian Ales
10 Barrel Brewing – Riviera – German Sour Beers
10 Barrel Brewing – Cheap Vacation – American Sour Beers
Wolf Tree Brewing – BA Spruce Tip Gruit – Experimental Beers
10 Barrel, Portland – Helles – Pale European Lagers
Deschutes Brewery (collab w/McMenamins Old Saint Francis School) – Buzzin’ Around – Collaboration

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